Stories about: SCO

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    Siemens invokes Twitter to lure unified communications application developers 05/11/2009 06:53:00

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified communications apps, priming the pump with a mashup it created that mixes its UC gear with Twitter.
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    SCO fires CEO McBride as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy 20/10/2009 07:33:00

    Unix software vendor SCO, struggling through bankruptcy and a Unix copyright trial involving Novell, has fired president and CEO, Darl McBride.
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    TwtrconSF: Twitter gets the spotlight 02/06/2009 05:15:00

    SAN FRANCISCO -- How long does it take a new and popular technology to be targeted as a way to make money? Not long, apparently, if the technology is Twitter. That explains the advent of the first-ever TwtrconSF 09, a one-day conference put on Sunday by Modern Media Partners.
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    Microsoft goes after TomTom -- and Linux 02/03/2009 09:10:00

    The Linux community has a message to Microsoft: Back off
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    SCO reorganization proposed 14/01/2009 09:15:00

    As part of a proposed reorganization following its bankruptcy filing, SCO plans a public auction of its mobile business and its Unix OpenServer business, the company said on Monday.
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    15 events that changed technology history 24/12/2008 09:00:00

    There are certain key points that have shaped the way technology is today. We've rounded up the 15 most important milestones and explained why they changed the course of the industry.
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    Consortium launches Linux patent pool 10/12/2008 08:28:00

    Open Invention Network, which buys patents related to the Linux operating system and licenses them royalty-free, Tuesday launched a program aimed at encouraging open-source developers to document information about their work so that it can be easily read and used by patent offices and lawyers.
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    SCO loses another round in Unix fight, to pay Novell US$2.55M 18/07/2008 08:24:43

    At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code.
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    Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0 10/07/2008 09:55:39

    A few weeks ago, the OpenSUSE Project announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, the "community" edition of SUSE Linux, Novell's commercial Linux distribution. Like most recent distributions, OpenSUSE is made up of the usual suspects, including GNOME and KDE-based desktops, Live CD and full DVD installation options, and an online repository of software that can be installed using a GUI tool.
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    Billy we hardly knew ye 01/07/2008 11:56:36

    It feels strange writing this, I won't have Bill Gates to kick around anymore. (Or, given that he still plans to visit the Redmond campus once a week, I'll only have 20 percent of him to kick around.) Of all the tech targets I've pummeled over the years, the world's third richest man easily commands the pole position.
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    RTFM: Good advice in troubled times 26/06/2008 11:23:22

    Back when five bucks' worth of dinosaur squeezings bought you a misspent weekend, working in technology required desks, and the reason for desks was to have a place to lay out your manuals. Massive hole-punched tomes ending in "Guide" and "Reference" were techies' bread and butter. It was so taken for granted that you had manuals that RTM (we'll go F-less now that we know what we're talking about) became shorthand for "go look it up; you might learn something by accident."
 
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